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Dr Rg and Sarah Raymond Foundation

Fond Du Lac, WI · EIN 39-6051142. Reported 141 grants totalling $384,000 to 34 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,050median grant
$384,000granted, 2021-2025
34recipients, as named on its returns
96%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,543,451assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Dr Rg and Sarah Raymond Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,050. Half of everything it gave fell between $550 and $4,200; the smallest was $500 and the largest $13,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
37 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
85 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Brownsville Public LibraryBrownsville, WI$42,000552025
Village of BrownvilleBrownsville, WI$38,750552025
Loaves & Fishes ProgramFond Du Lac, WI$22,125552025
Salvation ArmyFond Du Lac, WI$22,100332023
Fond Du Lac YMCAFond Du Lac, WI$21,000552025
Marian UniversityFond Du Lac, WI$21,000552025
St Mary's Springs AcademyFond Du Lac, WI$21,000552025
Winnebago Lutheran AcademyFond Du Lac, WI$21,000552025
Solutions Center Shelter & SupportFond Du Lac, WI$20,625552025
St Mary's Church LomiraLomira, WI$18,900332025
St Mary's ChurchLomira, WI$12,600222022
Brooke IndustriesFond Du Lac, WI$10,500552025
Blandine HouseFond Du Lac, WI$10,250552025
Fdl Blue Line Hockey Club IncFond Du Lac, WI$10,000552025
Bay Lakes Council Boy ScoutsAppleton, WI$9,500552025
Manitou Girl Scout CouncilSheboygan, WI$9,500552025
Mayville Public LibraryMayville, WI$9,400552025
Stmary's School-MayvilleMayville, WI$8,500552025
Holy Family Catholic CongregationFond Du Lac, WI$6,000222025
Theresa Public LibraryTheresa, WI$5,500552025
Family Resource Center of Fond Du Lac CountyFond Du Lac, WI$4,500332023
Lomira Food PantryFond Du Lac, WI$4,000222025
Mayville Food PantryMayville, WI$4,000222025
Society of St Vincent Depaul - Fond Du LacFond Du Lac, WI$4,000222025
Society of St Vincent Depaul - Mayville Co St Mary's CongregationMayville, WI$4,000222025
Lomira Quad Graphics Community LibraryLomira, WI$3,300332025
St Johns Lutheran Church LomiraLomira, WI$2,750552025
Church of PeaceFond Du Lac, WI$2,500552025
Sons of ZebedeeFond Du Lac, WI$2,500552025
St Lawrence SeminaryMt Calvary, WI$2,500552025
St Pauls CathedralFond Du Lac, WI$2,500552025
St Pauls Church - BrownvilleBrownsville, WI$2,500552025
Trinity Methodist ChurchLomira, WI$2,500552025
Lomira Quad Graphics Community FundSussex, WI$2,200222022

34 of 34 (100%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 96%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 28 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Religion
8 grants
Mental Health
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Education
5 grants
Human Services
5 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$84,000$2,100
202227$73,000$2,050
202327$75,000$2,100
202430$76,000$2,000
202530$76,000$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Fond Du Lac, WI
$206K
Brownsville, WI
$83K
Lomira, WI
$40K
Mayville, WI
$26K
Appleton, WI
$10K
Sheboygan, WI
$10K
Theresa, WI
$6K
Mt Calvary, WI
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fond Du Lac Area Foundation7 shared recipientsGrande Foundation6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsAgnesian Healthcare Inc4 shared recipientsAlliant Energy Foundation Inc2 shared recipientsGreen Bay Packers Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,050. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Dr Rg and Sarah Raymond Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Co Natl Exchange Bank 130 S Main, Fond Du Lac, WI, 54935. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 39-6051142 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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